
Grow your employee ownership to achieve success
Trusted and focused support to help grow your employee-owned business.
Being an employee-owned business sets you apart from others in your sector, but the commercial pressures you face will be the same. So what if you could use your model to create a meaningful competitive advantage – how could that help you through volatile times?
At Telos Partners, we can help.
We bring the practical knowledge, skill and expertise you need to successfully grow your business through employee ownership.
Why work with us
130+ employee-owned businesses supported
Commercially astute with real-world experience of EO
Trusted to deliver agreed outcomes and impact for a fixed fee
Why support to grow your EO matters
When you’re immersed in the daily challenge of running your business, finding the time to nurture your employee ownership can be hard. Too often it can slip off the radar even when you know it can drive commercial performance and add real value to the bottom line.
This is where our experienced support comes in.
We enable you to grow your employee ownership into a business strength – bolstering your commercial resilience and ability to innovate and grow.

What we help you do
1. Assess the health and strength of your employee ownership model with the eoQ™
2. Create strategies and plans that unlock the commercial benefits of employee ownership
3. Develop the capabilities of your leaders, managers, trustees and employee owners
4. Accelerate your employee-owned business’s innovation, product development and sales
How we support owners, leaders and trustees to grow EO
We work with your leadership team as they engage with employee owners and trustees to realise the potential of your business and deliver sustainable profitable growth.
[You] are… great people to work with. [You] helped to get our culture and values aligned to make our employee ownership transition smooth and positive for all. And it was fun having [you] on the journey.’
EO transition support
Founder, employee-owned niche tech supplier
‘[You] were enthusiastic and professional. [You] shortened the EO transition stage for us… and narrowed our focus to identify the actions required to get us through. If I needed [future] advice or intervention, [you] would be my first port of call.’
EO transition support
CEO, employee-owned waste management software company
‘We underestimated the amount of work involved in making our business employee-owned. There was a temptation to not use [your] skills but we could not have done it ourselves.... As a small business, it makes a real difference to have that outside voice advising you.’
EO transition support
Co-founder, employee-owned sales tech company
‘[You] delivered a bespoke day of training for our new EO Trustee Board and it was clear [you’d] thought deeply about what we needed. [You] were precise, attentive and did what we asked [you] to do – and did it really well.’
Building an effective EO Trust Board
MD, employee-owned environmental consultancy
‘We wanted [an Independent Trustee] who had already sat on an EOT Board and knew what was required. Immediately we started working [together], I felt I was in the hands of people who knew what they were doing. [you] delivered maximum results with minimum disruption.’
Independent Trustee resourcing for EO Trust Board
Co-founder and MD of employee-owned tech company

